Road Crew! Hail and well met! Today, we have a post aimed at you. Have you had a chance to read The Black Heart of Thakulon The Undying yet? That’s the adventure we ran as the Dungeon Crawl Classics 2017 Gen Con Team Tournament. A few days back, we ran a post about running it as a tournament and posting your scores to our online site. This is especially true for you, as a Road Crew member, since it is very beneficial. Why? Because running The Black Heart of Thakulon The Undying counts as THREE games for Road Crew purposes. There are three rounds to the tournament, and each round counts as a full game. Oh, and one more thing: The first 10 Road Crew gamers to run the tournament and post their scores are going to get a special prize! What prize, you ask? Well, that would be telling, and for right now we’re keeping it a secret. The first step is to get a copy of The Black Heart of Thakulon The Undying. Once you’ve read the adventure and are ready to play, here are some resources for you to use: • The Black Heart of Thakulon The Undying player pack! Every player about to enter the tournament should download this, select their pregen, familiarize themselves with the tournament format, and understand their spells. • The tournament judges pack! WARNING: JUDGE’S EYES ONLY! For the first time ever, we are posting this essential resource publicly. Judges already have most of this information available to them in DCC: The Black Heart of Thakulon The Undying, and this pack provides some handy guidelines. • Judges, make sure you photocopy the scoring materials starting on page 38 of The Black Heart of Thakulon The Undying so you can correctly record your scores! Or you can download the original scoring sheets that we used at Gen Con 2017. These are down-and-dirty, not quite as pretty as the published versions, but they’ll make it feel like a tournament. • Judges, you’ll also want to download the Thakulon Scoring Sheet Excel file. At Gen Con, Judges enter the team scores into this spreadsheet and use it to evaluate the winners. The spreadsheet may make your life easier, too. • Finally, once your game is complete, post your scores at our online tracker. So go get a group together. Have some fun. And then report it back to us! Ten spots...

Doom. DOOOOOM! One of the most popular features of our Gen Con booth is the DCC imagery. Fans love the painted back drops, the artist booths, and seeing all the amazing new art. In 2017 they loved the Gong of Doom, and its use to let all know another brave soul had fallen. As you approached the Gen Con booth in 2018, you were greeted by the latest prizes of The Dark Master. This year the newest additions were The Obelisks of Doom! Crafted to look like ancient Stygian relics flying the DCC RPG banner, these strange artifacts doubled as book storage at the edge of our display, and many a DCC core rulebook was dispensed with their foul curse attached. The creator of these relics is the legendary Wayne Snyder. The same Wayne of WayneCon, artificer of The Gong of Doom, and now The Obelisk Overlord. Wayne recently posted on his blog about the process of creating these monuments. The atramentous artisan goes into great detail on the construction—and you can read all about it on his blog. So click on over to the article and read about the adventure of creating The Gen Con Obelisks of Doom! If you enjoy that article, you might also want to take a moment to read about how he built The Gong of Doom, on another of his blog entries....

Gen Con 2018. It came down to the wire. To the very last moment. It was down to a single roll…. Let’s backtrack a moment. The Riders of the Phlogiston2018 DCC Team Tournament began with eighteen teams, each fighting to become the new champions of the Dungeon Crawl Classics world. In the end, two teams faced off against each other: The Lords of Sarcasm, ESWM against The Hammertoes. Both of them proved to be formidable foes,...

Gen Con 2018. Day Three is finished, and we have finalists. The results from round 2 are in and the Lords of Sarcasm, ESWM along with the Hammertoes will be advancing! The Goat Men are the alternates in case one of the top two teams cannot make it. Alternate teams have to show up in order to be able to take a spot. Tickets for teams advancing to round 3 are not required. Like rounds 1 and 2, we will be starting promptly at 10 minutes...

Gen Con 2018. Day two has been done. And the final results for round 1 are in! The first four teams qualify for round 2 which will be held in ICC 127-128 on Saturday from 9am – 1pm. The fifth and sixth place teams are listed as alternates in case one of the top four teams cannot make it. Alternate teams have to show up in order to be able to take a spot. Tickets for teams advancing to round 2 are not required. Rank Team Score...

Gen Con 2018. Day one is in the bag. We’ve had a slew of competitors come through the meat grinder that is The Riders of the Phlogiston, and some even made it out alive! A huge thanks to all of the Judges and players that helped to make the first day of the event a huge success. Fun was had. A gong was rung. And one team is on top heading into day two. Here’s the current standings: The Hammertoes: 3235 The Goat Men: 1484...

You might wonder what the best part of Gen Con truly is. Is it all the games? Is it the new product? Is it the excitement that surrounds the event? Those are all great, but they aren’t the best part. The best part is the people. The fans who come to the show and gather together to make it the best four days of the year. Goodman Games has put a lot of effort into this year. We’ve got the setup. The gang. The new product. A...

This is it. It all starts TOMORROW! It is the eve of Gen Con 2018, and that means the DCC Team Tournament begins tomorrow morning! If you are taking part in the tournament, make sure that you have downloaded and read the player pack so that you are prepped for the game. (And you can read the full details at our previous post on the topic.) And you really need to check out the Goodman Games game room to see the latest on the Gong of...

Round seven is the finale! The final reveal before the big event itself. We’re willing to take a roll on this one, and we think you might, too. That’s right, we’ve got dice! Four dice sets will be showing up at Gen Con, two old friends and two brand new sets will be at the Goodman Games table, waiting for you. And even the old friends are showing up with a new look. These sets are in VERY limited quantities. More...

Round six is about taking a break! Relaxing. Sending a note to a friend. In fact, we’ve got a special release just for you! We’re not just old school in our choice of art or design. We’re also old school when it comes to social media. We’re bringing social media to Gen Con 2018…1970’s style. POSTCARDS! The original email! The original social media! We’re bringing it back, Goodman Games style! We’ll have a custom Goodman Games...

Round five is all about our friends! We’ve got some amazing friends, you know. Gen Con 2018 will see the debut of a pair of items from two of our publishing partners, who are releasing new third-party MCC and DCC products. And you’ll be able to find both of them at the Goodman Games booth, so make sure you stop by! Check out the new releases below! Meanderings Across The Radlands #1 This digest sized zine features 22 pages...

The fourth time is all about style! What you wear defines who you are, after all. At Gen Con 2018, Goodman Games will debut six new t-shirts! Four of the designs were voted on by you, our fans, letting us know your preferences. Turns out you like all of them, so you’ll be able to get select sizes in each of them. And we also have a couple of familiar designs showing up in a new form. The popular Count Dante T-shirt and the...

We told you we had more to come! And this time, we’re going for the ultimate cool factor. At Gen Con 2018, Goodman Games will debut all-new, limited-edition, vintage-novel-inspired versions of some of our favorite Dungeon Crawl Classics modules! All of these modules are 8.5 x 11 and have the exact same contents that you know from their original release, but they all sport spectacular new cover layouts to invoke the era that...

In just over one week we’ll be enjoying the opening day of Gen Con 2018! We’ve already told you SOME of the new material that you’ll be able to find at the booth, but as we told you, we were far from done. Below is the next wave of new releases, and some of these are exclusive to the show! So get a check-list ready and check out the second round of release news on the latest from Goodman Games appearing at Gen Con...

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